Blizzard's Technical Director Leaves The Company After 23 Years

After a 23-year career at Blizzard, Technical Director Monte Krol departs for good.

He made significant contributions to Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft while with the company. Krol also designed essential programs for World of Warcraft, and played a significant part in the making of Blizzard’s upcoming mobile game Warcraft Arclight Rumble. On top of that, he voiced some characters in Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft.

Well, here's a crazy thing. After 22 years and 9 months, today was my last day at Blizzard.

It's impossible to sum up in a tweet; I'm grateful for an uncountable number of things.

To my Blizz family: stay awesome, and drink some great coffee.

No Orc for me... Alliance forever: pic.twitter.com/sev6u6cbUi

— Monte Krol (@krolco) July 22, 2023

Note: Activision Blizzard has been sued by California’s Civil Rights Department, alleging violations of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act and Equal Pay Act. CEO Bobby Kotick is alleged to have known about the alleged violations within his company. These allegations have all been denied by Activision Blizzard and the company points to additional diversity and inclusion training as past examples of taking the accusations seriously at the time they were made.